Set up a dedicated Facebook group for your class
A Facebook group can allow your students to create discussion boards,
communicate with each other and their teacher, and can be linked with online
projects &amp; other classroom groups. Teachers can use these groups to send out
mass messages, reminders, and potentially even post homework assignments.

Use Facebook Apps
Facebook is more than a place to tag photos from last night’s not-so-clever
encounter with tequila. It is now a platform that runs on mobile devices, and
can be integrated with applications designed for learning. From news to learning
a new language, there are many apps that allow searches and sharing across the
platform.

Follow news feeds
If your students are working on a project involving anything from current
affairs to piracy, Facebook news feeds can be an alternative to Twitter in order
to enrich a project with real-time opinion and commentary. Not only this, but
you can sign up and join groups focusing on certain areas; such as student
education, U.S. healthcare, or politics.

Practice foreign languages
As a traveler and advocate of language learning, I found Facebook to be one
of best resources in which to find ‘language buddies’ to practice your writing
skills in a secondary language. There are groups that are dedicated to this —
and you can get feedback on your attempts. It is also possible to find events
and links to language-based resources.

Follow figures of interest
This can be done on both Twitter and Facebook, especially since the Timeline
roll-out and subscription service began. You do not have to be friends with the
person you wish to follow — as long as they allow subscriptions to their
profile, any public updates

Use the Facebook Timeline for class projects
The Facebook Timeline feature may not be the site’s most popular update, but
it can be used to create a project more interesting than a traditional Power
Point presentation.

Use Facebook Questions and polls
Why not upload a photo to your class Facebook group and ask your students to
comment? There are cases of this feature being used as a way to ask questions or
set a class task — such as identifying a species of animal or important figure.
Polls can be also used for research, opinion, or to generate a later classroom
discussion.

she learned over the years that her colleagues — and their students — are only interested in professional-looking materials that offer the kind of information and instruction they need. Teachers are able to rate items offered for purchase or distribution.

Teachers often spend their own money on classroom supplies, despite receiving a few hundred dollars a year for that purpose from their districts. Increasingly, teachers say, they are going to these curriculum sharing sites to look for materials like the ones Nannini and Jump made available because their funds go further than at traditional school supply stores.

Stephen Wakefield, spokesman for ASCD, a prominent teacher training organization that has a blog promoting ways for teachers to get help online, said no national organizations approve or rate the multitude of online curricula available to teachers. However many offer lists of places for teachers to explore, he said.

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"Evil visited this community today and it's too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut — we're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event," Gov. Dannel Malloy said.

Also, a custodian ran around, warning people there was someone with a gun, Varga said.
"He said, 'Guys! Get down! Hide!'" Varga said. "So he was actually a hero." The teacher said he did not know if the custodian survived.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A man killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday inside an elementary school, massacring 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in fear to the sound of gunshots reverberating through the building and screams echoing over the intercom.